List of Old Falconians - Science and Medicine

Science and Medicine

• Dr Andrew Vern-Barnett MBE AM, the pioneer in Australia of the care and treatment of autistic children, the Autistic Children’s Association which he chaired at its beginning in 1966 has grown to over 600 staff and claims to be the largest single autism specific school system in the world with 800 students;
• Emeritus Professor Felix Bochner AM, Foundation Chair and Head, Clinical Pharmacology, Adelaide University (1981–2003), co-author of Handbook of Clinical Pharmacology and Introduction to Pharmacology;
• Colonel Peter Braithwaite AO CBE, Honorary Surgeon to the Governor-General, Chairman of Menzies Foundation of Tasmania, Chairman of Tasmanian Division of Australian Red Cross, President of Thoracic Society of Australia;
• Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM, Professor of Discipline of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Newcastle, Inventor of vaccine against bronchitis, author of The Mapping of Terra Australis,;
• Dr Alec Costin AM FAA, ecologist who has spent the past sixty years working in the Australian Alps, authority on the ecology of high mountain and high latitude ecosystems, Chief Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO (1955–74);
• Professor Marshall Edwards, Dean of Veterinary Science at Sydney University, the discoverer of maternal hyperthermia as a human teratogen;
• Dr Wolf Elber, Director of the United States Army Research Laboratory Vehicle Technology Center, he discovered the phenomenon of plasticity-induced fatigue crack closure, which has revolutionized fatigue crack growth analyses, the publication of this pioneering work has become the most cited paper in the discipline, awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award;
• Dr John Falk FAA, Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry;
• Dr Ian Gardner, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, recipient of a New South Wales Residency Expatriate Scientists Award in 2004;
• Dr John Gero, Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, formerly Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney, author or editor of 50 books and over 600 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science;
• Dr Malcolm Gillies, a young medical registrar tragically lost to illness in 1958, he was held in such high esteem by his peers that to this day they gather once a year at the Royal North Shore Hospital to hear the Malcolm Gillies Oration in his honour;
• Emeritus Professor Campbell "Cam" Graham, Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry at Sydney University (1961–77);
• Dr John Grant AO OBE HonMD, neurosurgeon and humanitarian, President of Organising Committee of 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games;
• Colonel Peter Grant OBE, Medical Superintendent of Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane, Commander of Medical 1 Division RAAMC;
• Sir Thomas Greenaway, President of Royal Australasian College of Physicians;
• Professor Donald Hall, Director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii; Deputy Director of the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Winner of Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, 1977;
• Professor Clifford Hughes AO, CEO of Clinical Excellence Commission of NSW, Clinical Professor of Surgery at Sydney University;
• Emeritus Professor Leonard Humphreys, Pro Vice Chancellor of Queensland University (Biological Sciences);
• Professor Richard Hunstead, Head of the Astrophysics Group at Sydney University, one of 33 Australian Science Citation Laureates, the minor planet 171429 Hunstead is named in his honour;
• Dr Kosuke Ishii (Dux of School 1975), Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Design Division) at Stanford, Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Design, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991), Pitney Bowes-ASME Award for Excellence in Mechanical Design (1993);
• Emeritus Professor Denis Kermode, Inaugural Head of Department of Surgery at University of Western Australia in 1983;
• Professor Cheviot Kidson, Director of Queensland Institute of Medical Research;
• Professor Paul Klemens, leading American theoretical physicist whose life work is honoured by the triennial award of the Klemens Medal in Phonon Physics;
• Professor Iven Klineberg, Dean of Dentistry at Sydney University;
• Dr Alexander Lascelles, Chief of Division of Animal Health CSIRO (1973–83); Professor of Dairying at Sydney University (1964–73);
• Emeritus Professor Ian Lewis AO, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1984–88) and Inaugural Professor of Child Health (1969–88) at the University of Tasmania, Dean of the Fiji School of Medicine (1989–91), Finalist in 2007 for Senior Australian of the Year, author of The Abuse of Medicine in Children, 1978 (also attended St Paul’s School, London);
• Professor Ian Lin, former Director of Centre for Engineering Management and Innovation at Sydney University;,
• Dr William McCallum, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona, lead author of the Harvard calculus consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts (brother of John McCallum and Peter McCallum );
• Emeritus Professor Graham Macdonald AM, Executive Chairman of Australian Stem Cell Centre, Medical Director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia), between 1974 and 1998 an academic nephrologist at the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals Clinical School of the University of New South Wales;
• Sir (John) Kempson Maddox, founder of Diabetic Association of Australia, former President of International Society of Cardiology;,
• Gordon McClymont, agricultural scientist, Foundation Chair of the Faculty of Rural Science at the University of New England, and originator of the term "sustainable agriculture".
• Dr Donald Melrose FAA, Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director, Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics at Sydney University,
• Roger Morse AO, pioneer in solar energy research and development; President of the International Solar Energy Society; awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal in 1980
• Emeritus Professor Ernest Newbrun Hon DDS, Professor of Oral Biology, Professor of Biology and Professor of Biology and Periodontology at the University of California, contributed many original articles to the dental literature and is internationally recognised for the 29 books and book chapters which he has written, his work on the fundamental mechanisms of dental caries and periodontal disease has led to a revised approach throughout the world to these two major dental problems, his many honours have included the Award for Special Distinction in Dental Education from the Eastman Dental Centre, the Presidential Citation of the American Dental Association and the Research Award in Dental Caries from the International Association of Dental Research;
• Dr Gilbert Phillips, neurosurgeon who rushed from England to Austria to try to save the life of American General George Patton who had been injured (mortally as it proved) in a car accident; former officer-in-charge of the surgical division of the hospital for head injuries, St Hugh's College, Oxford, founder of The Wine Society;,
• Professor John Prineas AO, "He has received international acclaim and several major awards for his lifetime of achievements in MS research including in 2009, the MS International Federation’s highest accolade, the Charcot award", now at Brain and Mind Institute at Sydney University following 25 years of groundbreaking research at New Jersey Medical School,USA, discoverer of how brain and spinal cord myelin is destroyed in MS, awarded the 2001 John Dystel Prize for MS Research, co-developer of new method to study proteins from brain tissue;
• Dr Leo Radom FAA, Professor of Chemistry at Sydney University, Professor in Research School of Chemistry at Australian National University, specialist in computational quantum chemistry, awarded Schrödinger Medal 1994, H G Smith Medal 1988 and Rennie Medal 1977;
• Professor John Read, former Dean of Medicine at Sydney University, in 1968 became the youngest ever Professor in Australian academia at only 39;
• Dr Brian Robinson FAA FRAS, radio astronomer, deeply involved in design and construction of the Australia Telescope Project, becoming its Vice-Chairman, Director of Research, Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory Parkes (1971–79);
• David Robinson AM DSc Hon, pioneer of diagnostic ultrasound in Australia, with colleague George Kossoff built Australia's first ultrasound scanner and, in May 1962, recorded Australia's first ultrasound image of a foetus, President of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers from 1985–87, awarded the Professor Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer award for basic science from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine in 2000;
• Professor Sydney Rubbo, Professor of Bacteriology at Melbourne University;
• Professor Philip Sambrook OAM, Head of Rheumatology at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital and Director of the Institute for Bone & Joint Research;
• Dr Martin Silink, President of International Diabetes Federation, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at Sydney University;
• Emeritus Professor Richard Stanton AO FAA, geologist, Hoffman Research Fellow at Harvard, Visiting Professor at Oxford;
• Emeritus Professor George Stevenson, Director of Tenovus Research Laboratory, Professor of Immunochemistry at Southampton University UK;
• Dr Jonathan Stone FAA, Challis Professor of Anatomy at Sydney University, specialist in developmental biology; degenerative disease of retina (brother of Michael Stone );
• Dr Russell Tickle, Professor of Dentistry at University of Malaya, author of A comparison of the gas percentage delivery and dial percentage setting in anaesthetic machines,1947;
• Professor Alan Treloar, Head of the Department of Biostatistics at University of Minnesota where in 1934 he initiated The TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health, now one of the world's oldest ongoing research programs in this area, the first person to describe the concept of the peri-menopause (uncle of John Treloar );
• Dr John Turner, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry and Dean of Faculty of Agriculture at Sydney University;
• Emeritus Professor Stewart Turner FRS, specialist in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Australian National University, Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge;
• Dr Harry Tyer OAM MS Hon, Orthopaedic surgeon, responsible for introduction into Australia of the modern surgical treatment of spinal deformity, in 1986 awarded the L. O. Betts Memorial Medal; In 1984 established what is believed to have been the first 'Bone Bank' in Australia at The Rachel Forster Hospital, Redfern.
• Professor Rupert Vallentine (First XV 1934), Dean of Faculty of Engineering (1978–81) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1981–82) at the University of New South Wales where the Vallentine Annexe in Civil Engineering was named in his honour and in 2010 the Rupert Vallentine Fellowship Scheme was instituted to celebrate the career of "a visionary researcher, educator, strategic thinker and humanitarian";
• Associate Professor Marcus Vowels AM, Chairman of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology and Head of Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Prince of Wales Children's Hospital;
• Professor Garry Walter AM, Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Editor of Australasian Psychiatry, has published over 300 articles and has won many prestigious awards for his research;
• Dr George Wilson, Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University, author of Bispectral symmetry, the Weyl algebra and differential operators on curves;
• Professor John Wong, Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, has published over 500 original scientific papers and chapters in books, pioneer of new techniques in oesophageal cancer which have been responsible for reducing the mortality from these procedures to near zero, President of Pan-Pacific Surgical Association and Asian Surgical Association
• Associate Professor John Yeo AO, a leader in spinal injury care and rehabilitation, Head of Spinal Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital;